昷

wēn
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to be kind; to warm (archaic); the source form behind 温

Examples

HSK 7-9
Tā gěi wǒ dào le yì bēi wēnshuǐ.
She poured me a glass of warm water.

Tips

history
昷 is the source form behind 温 (warm) and is not used independently in modern Chinese. It pictures a vessel offered to a prisoner, an act of kindness, and gives the sound in 温 (warm), 瘟 (plague), 愠 (sullen / annoyed), and 蕴 (to hold within).
register
Archaic. One old reading also files 昷 under a 'clear-headed' sense; the 'warm / kind' sense is the one that explains its large phonetic family.

Components

radical
皿 mǐn
dish; vessel
The 'vessel' below holds the food or warm water given as an act of kindness; it is the indexing radical for 昷.
ideograph
日 rì
sun-shaped prisoner element
The top box is not the sun but a stylized figure in an enclosure, a captive, being offered the dish below in 昷.

Stroke Order

昷 wēn